We began our day with Mass. After Mass, we talked about St. Nicholas (whose feast day is December 6th) and watched a movie on his life. While doing this, we placed a shoe in the hallway because legend says that if you leave your shoes out, St. Nicholas will fill them. Well, as it turns out, St. Nicholas did come and fill our shoes with a candy cane and pencil!
I forgot to mention what first grade is doing to celebrate the season of Advent. We have an Advent calendar in the room. Each day, we pull out a picture which relates to the Christmas story. We then read that part of the story before adding the picture around our manger bulletin board. For example, today we read how Mary and Joseph traveled to Bethlehem on a donkey. We added a donkey around our manger. Here is a picture of our Advent calendar. I'll post a picture of the manger bulletin board next week.
During Language Arts class today, we reviewed our sight words, long o words, and contractions. We choral read our story Life in the Forest too.
In Math class today, we again practiced identifying lines of symmetry.We also talked about fractions and identifying one half of a whole. We even wrote the fraction one half.
In Science class, we talked about the differences between a solid, liquid, and gas. We then sorted pictures based on whether they were a solid, liquid, or gas.
Finally, it was time for Art class. Today we made Christmas carolers. They are so cute. I'll post pictures next week once they are hanging in the hallway for everyone to see.
Below you will see a picture of a small project we did on Thursday. Students made Christmas ornaments using tissue paper. They are hanging in our classroom.
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